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pretty sure scientists would care about a new breed of cockroach. So it would make sense for some alien scientists, or perhaps just undergrad science majors to
by anywherenotes 13y ago
pretty sure scientists would care about a new breed of cockroach. So it would make sense for some alien scientists, or perhaps just undergrad science majors to come and check out life on different planets.
- danielweber 13y agoOne big mistake people do is conflate society as a whole with all its members. Society, as a whole, probably doesn't care about a new cockroach species. But there is someone who does, just on Earth. Similarly, among any civ that has the basic biological impulses required to become an interstellar civ, there are going to be people who want to branch out on their own, who want to study something on their own, who want to be the first to contact something new. It's all those millions of edge-case members that will do the amazing stuff.